“Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter”

A talk and book signing by
co-editors Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton

Wednesday, November 9, 2016 • 4:30-6:00 pm

Smith Reading Room, 1^st floor Olin Library
252 Church Street, Middletown

Camp and Heatherton trace the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy that was first established in New York City under Police Commissioner William Bratton.

Open House of Special Collections & Archives materials related to the history of incarceration and policing

Before and after the talk: 4:00-4:30 pm, 6:00-7:00 pm

Davison Rare Book Room, Special Collections & Archives, Olin Library

The talk and open house are free and open to the public.

Jordan Camp is a postdoctoral fellow in Race and Ethnicity and International and Public Affairs at Brown, co-editor of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016), and author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016).  Christina Heatherton is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, co-editor of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016), and author of the forthcoming book The Color Line and the Class Struggle: The Mexican Revolution, Internationalism, and the American Century (University of California Press, 2016).

Sponsored by the Friends of the Wesleyan Library.
For more information, email libfriends@wesleyan.edu.